The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, individually or in concert, do not prevent him from obtaining or retaining substantially gainful employment.
The deciding factor: Competent, probative evidence does not establish that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities render him unemployable without regard to his advancing age or impairment from his nonservice-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Skull loss, Post-traumatic encephalopathy, Labyrinthitis associated with skull loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 17, 2009
- Citation
- 0909971
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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